Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-16
Iowa Items.

Raymond Myers, farmer near Ues
Moines, was gored to death Friday by an
lnfuriated bull.
The little child of Arthur Ellis at Ber.
was scalded to death.
granary, fifteen tons of hay and eight
horses of Michael at Creston.
The wife of Prof. Philbrick. long pro.
fessor In the state university, is suing for
divorce on the grounds of cruelty.
Jesse Spry, eight years, was popped by
companion with an unlOaded gun at
Cedar Rapids. The bullet penetrated his
lung.
The parties who contracted to strike
coal, gas or an artesian we'll at Bayard
have quit after gong 275 feet. They
came in contact with hard rock.
Strong indications of gas we'll have
been found six miles north of Burlington.
The water gas dished up in the city is
strong enough to reach that point with
out straining its energy.
Potts pulled his gun on John Hardy and
let her 90. Hardy and spectator was
wounded. Potts IS a prohibition per-
suader, and is now resting in jail.
The LeMars Globe says: when the
town was laid out six young ladies went
up on a special Car with the officials of
the road. Their given names were, re-
spectively, Laura, Emma, Mary, Annie
Rose and Susan. BY taking the first
letter of each of their names we get
LeMars.
Dakota.
The Duluth, Watertown & Pacific has
100 teams and 800 men in Watertown for
grading the line TO the southwest
Harvest is in progress generally
throughout Benson county. About one
third of the crop has been cut and the
yield of wheat, oats and barley will be
the heaviest since the first settlement of
the county four years ago.
The Aberdeen, Bismarck & North
western ask for depot grounds at Water
town and right.Of-way through the
county. If this IS built two new lines
will have been completed at WatertOwn
this season.
News was received Friday at Rapid
City from Indianapolis announcing the
death Of Joseph NJ. Wallace, for some
time clerk of court in Pennington county.
He was appointed to the position by
Judge Moody in 1889, and held the oihce
until the fall of 1885,
The most astonishing product of the
territory was recently discovered in the
Missouri bottoms. 1t is known as the
pump snake. and grows numerously and
to length of sixteen feet, A farmer on
Cat Tail creek has flock of twenty
pump-snakes trained to remarkable de-
gree of proficiency. AT the blast of a
whistle the snakes assemble on the banks
water of the creek, leaving only the ex-
tremity of its tail on the bank. Another
snake Immediately grasps the end of tho
leaders tail in his jaws, third snake
takes hold of the second snakes tail in u
similar manner, and SO on until there is
a continuous line of the snakes joined
end-on, extending to the water troughs
IN the cattle yards, 800 feet away.
The leading snake commences
waters of the creek, which passes
through the whole line OF snakes as it
would through q hose, and falls in q
heavy stream into the trough. On one
occasion this farmers grainary caught
fire, and for time threatened to destroy
his home and stock. The pump snakes
| realized that the time had come for one
of their best efforts. The leader hurled
himself into the creek, the rest instantly
| adjusting themselves, heads and tails,
from the creek to the burning building.
The last snake, standing on its head,
waved its long and flexible body, from
the tail end of which issued stream OF
water that was thrown with terrific force
on the burning building. Back and forth
dashed the tail end of that life hose,
squirting the water where it would do
the most good, while the loud pumping
of the leader could be heard above the
roar of the conhagration. Within fifteen
minutes the last spark was out.
William lIeaford, general inspector Of
boilers for the Hartford insurance COM
panv. is in the city for the purpose OF